{UAH} How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes

That's why Edward Mulindwa never contribute to these efforts.

'Billions of Blue Blistering Boiled Barbecued Barnacles!' Says Tin Tin's Captain Haddock! A postmortem assessment of where post-earthquake development aid to Haiti went would draw many lessons for similar projects here in Africa. In this (one of many) accounts, one highly credible development agency raised $500,000,000 to build new permanent homes for a neighborhood destroyed by the quake. Only 6 houses were built but the money was 'well' spent and accounted for. I think the best way to manage donor aid is that the donors themselves must be involved in tracking their money. The word 'trust' should be deleted from Merriam's Dictionary of Contemporary English and replaced with the equal letter word 'trush':

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In late 2011, the Red Cross launched a multimillion-dollar project to transform the desperately poor area, which was hit hard by the earthquake that struck Haiti the year before. The main focus of the project — called LAMIKA, an acronym in Creole for "A Better Life in My Neighborhood" — was building hundreds of permanent homes.

Today, not one home has been built in Campeche. Many residents live in shacks made of rusty sheet metal, without access to drinkable water, electricity or basic sanitation. When it rains, their homes flood and residents bail out mud and water.

The Red Cross received an outpouring of donations after the quake, nearly half a billion dollars.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes

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